I got all excited when I saw that Koffice was on the latest cover disc...until I got to the bit that said it required KDE2...which is apparently now out of beta. I'm still not very good with installation of packages. I navigated through the CDrom using netscape - and when I arrived at the rpms assumed I could just double click to trigger the install. (OK - so I assume I need to modify the MIME map files (where are they?) to do this) What 'package' should I point them to? I have never got Kpackage to to anything useful. Karchiver has worked though and installed CorelPaint9 for me (although I'm not sure that it installed it in the right place). In fact - it created an 'install' folder from which it was possible to run the installation programs. Can this be done directly from the CD archive without copying tens of megabytes of installation code - only to reinstall the actual code somewhere else...OK I suppose I could delete the installation folder now, but it seems a bit round about. Which brings me back to KDE2. It would appear that I need to upgrade various libraries, including Qt one. Is this likely to leave my current KDE in a state of disarray (or do the two versions coexist?) Should all this be done outside the GUI by changing inittab back to a console login? Has anyone installed KDE2? Well - obviously, yes - but anyone here wish to comment on any problems? -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School